Experimentation Statistician III

Are you passionate about driving product innovation through online experimentation? If you love exploring the world and want to help a product-oriented company continuously improve their platform to facilitate travel, let's talk!

Expedia is seeking an intellectually curious, collaborative, and experienced data scientist to join the Experimentation Science & Statistics team, part of the global Product Analytics and Experimentation team, as a Data Scientist III. This team fuels data-informed decisions, and online experimentation to enhance web products and improve customer experience.

​

What you'll do:

• Lead the design, analysis, and interpretation of online experiments that shape product decision-making

• Drive innovation through development of new experimentation methodologies, statistical techniques, and causal-inference approaches that could sharpen our product decision-making and improve user experience

• Drive the research direction in developing methods and tools that increase the rigor and efficiency of our experimentation platform

• Present your research and insights to all levels of the company

• Build methods and metrics to measure health and performance of A/B testing program across various product teams

• Build self-service tools and provide the training to empower individuals to make their own decisions on test design and analysis

• Check on the quality and use of information coming from experiments for business decisions

• Provide general experimentation and statistical consulting across the organization

• Use business and technical knowledge to influence a variety of partners on test design and outcome (validation of hypothesis, size and configuration of test variances, test length, winner acceptance criteria, validation of test results and calculation of annualized revenue impact)

• This is a high-impact, high-visibility role in which you will have direct influence on how product decisions are made and what experiences are being rolled out to our users across the globe

• You will partner closely with product managers, engineers, and data scientists to drive a culture of experimentation, develop methods in causal inference and improve decision making

• You'll make improve the health and performance of testing program across the organization

• You'll communicate statistical & experimental techniques as well as test results to variety of partners (product managers, marketers, and senior leaders)
  

Who you are:

• Master's or PhD in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Physics, or a related field; or equivalent related professional experience

• Significant experience and excitement with one or more of the following: advanced statistical techniques for A/B testing, methods for experimental design, observational causal inference, or quasi-experimental analysis

• Deep statistical skills utilized in analyzing clickstream behavioral data, A/B testing, and modeling

• Experience with distributed analytic processing technologies (Spark, Presto, Hive)

• Strong proficiency with Python / R and SQL

• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills

• Experience using massive amounts of data to drive product innovation

#L1-TR1

Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.

Expedia Group is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to support employees and their families, including medical/dental/vision, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program. To fuel each employee’s passion for travel, we offer a wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership.View our full list of benefits.